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Rental companies tell committee weights-and-measures rules are burdening small equipment rentals

Michigan House Regulatory Reform Committee · November 7, 2025
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Summary

Industry witnesses told the committee that a 2023 interpretation of weights-and-measures rules requiring metered pumps or full-tank billing is imposing heavy compliance costs on small equipment rental companies.

Representative Aragona and Vice Chair Liberati presented a package of bills (House Bills 4678 and 4679) aimed at clarifying how rental companies may charge for fuel in small equipment rentals. Witnesses from the American Rental Association and multiple local rental companies described enforcement actions from weights-and-measures auditors in 2023 that require companies to either install metered pumps or charge customers the full tank price whenever equipment is returned less than full.

Kevin Gurn of the…

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